Jack who wrote Aether Torrent

Unfortunately, due to the current political climate, we must strongly caution against any travel to the United States by anyone other than American citizens.

Interesting, SciFiCons is warning people not to attend US conventions unless they are US citizens.

Understandable considering the actions of GestapICE.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD ***************** Investigation of: LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN ON JUNE 18, 2023 * * * * * * Accident No.: *********** * * * * * * Interview of: Co-designer/Pilot Deepsea Challenger DCA23FM036 via Microsoft Teams Friday, July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF 10 BY LCDR 11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible 12 operations? 13 A. Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic. When I 14 set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did 15 was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible 16 program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named 17| Professor I. I did that through a mutual friend 18 of ours, a guy named , who is one of the preeminent underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a 20 submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the 21 Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was 22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

45 Years Ago Today:

45 Years Ago Today:

Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation

Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation https://theonion.com/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-her-en-1819572981/

Dream #knightsofguinevere #kog

Immediately topple and bulldoze what they build. They do not get to be remembered for anything.

And while you're at it, chisel the edifice off Stone Mountain.

School funding should have nothing to do with taxes from the district they're in.

It makes absolutely no sense that being born on one side of the street means you get art supplies and DIY robot parts but being born on the other side of the street means you get a playground made entirely of asphalt.

"keep everything out of writing," they wrote

Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation. "Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies. Text and image generation Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.

BY THE WAY

If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.

There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.

Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."

TURN IT OFF.

A small brown German Shepherd-like dog, who is in fact half Chihuahua, sitting down in the shade and licking his nose while wearing a green harness and orange collar.

The same dog, looking away while being petted.

The same dog, resting sitting up with his eyes closed and his ears back.

The same dog once again, panting while being petted.

Little man MacCready walked for an hour and hit his limit, so he sat down for a rest and awaited a chauffeur to rescue him.

...hey, y'all wanna see a dead body?

Back when posting was good

Goddamn @theamynicholson.bsky.social COOKED with this FRANKENSTEIN review. Bow down to one of the greats. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

I’m fucking high, right? This is a hallucination brought on by overwork and tequila, right?

Global map with countries shaded to indicate level of freedom of the press based on the 2025 Reporters Without Borders’ Press Freedom Index.

2025 Press Freedom Rank
1 Norway
2 Estonia
3 Netherlands
4 Sweden
5 Finland
11 Germany
16 NZ
20 UK
21 Canada
25 France
27 S Africa
29 Australia
31 Poland
49 Italy
52 Ghana

57 US

58 Gambia
61 S Korea
63 Brazil
66 Japan
89 Greece
112 Israel
124 Mexico
151 India
171 Russia
178 China
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a hall of fame editor’s note

To illustrate what I mean, among many, many examples, this is what the opposite of a tangible, easy to understand policy proposal looks like:

Thread. This guy gets it.

(Also, IMO, Zohran's graphic design team is splitting the arrow with another arrow, like Kevin Costner in "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves." Just super-bullseye. "Shepard Fairey Obama HOPE poster" tier )

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

What’s frustrating is, none of these companies have viable pathways to profitability so they’re giving this crap away for free to get lock-in so we’ll accept massive price hikes later. It’s drug dealer logic, but the “innovation” is too much to resist for a lot of leaders and they force it on us.

A printed set of World Book encyclopedias is $1200 and only captures info up to the window in time in which it was printed.

A few bucks a month can make sure a vital resource that's constantly updated and rigorously scoured for inaccuracies by benevolent pedants remains available to everyone.

Wikipedia is worth $10/month because if it dies so does reliable knowledge. Cough up if you can -- it's cheaper, more interesting and morally superior to Netflix.

Chat is it good when top military strategists are unable to actually come up with ideas and need to consult with the random word generating vizier that's subtly controlled by a third party billionaire

Even the smallest act...

I do not know this for a fact, but I am guessing that the Central and South American bishops conferences - where Opus Dei is like doing indentured servitude and ruining lives - are having way different conversations about them than the US conference where their big money flows to right-wing coffers

what's interesting here is that in this case I don't think he's Leo from Chicago as much as he is Leo from Peru

Opus Dei's fuckery in Argentina is what precipitated Francis finally cracking down on them in 2022. they were doing full-on human rights violations with no oversight

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

GUYS

GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC

GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU

OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM